Not really. I usually find my daily dose of laughter on twitter by following some really funny people. In this list I will share the users that you could follow and get your daily dose of laughter from twitter.

After you download and install the new version of Picasa it will start scanning photos and create groups of similar faces. Once done you can access all the pictures under a group called Unnamed People and start adding name tags to sets of photos.

In addition to that it will also auto-complete the names if you are signed in to your Google account. In future whenever Picasa scans new photos it will automatically suggest you names for it.

If you take pictures in various locations there is some more good news. Picasa now also includes Google maps integration which will allow you to easily geo tag your photos. You can also continue to Geo tag your photos using Google Earth.

To make tag management better, Picasa 3.5 also includes a quick tag functionality to quickly access tagged photos.

There are also improvements in the Picasa web album uploader where you can select to upload only starred items from imported photos without having to select individual photos.

Digsby has announced a new version of the multi-protocol instant messaging client with much better support for Twitter. The idea behind the changes are to make twitter look less of a timeline and more of a conversation between users.

Here are some screenshots of the new Digsby interface for Twitter, that will be demoed later today at DEMOFall 09.

In addition to that you can also reply to users from within the popup message for twitter updates.

Overall there are several new features in the new Digsby client which include the following.

Single column user interface that doesn’t take up your whole screen

Tweets are shown in chronological order so you read the conversation as it happens instead of seeing the tail end first and reading it backwards

Digsby keeps track of unread counts but you never have to mark tweets as read. Digsby does it for you automatically

Whenever you open the Twitter window, Digsby brings you right where you left off so you can continue reading the conversation without missing a tweet

Conquer information overload by filtering groups of users out of the main timeline so it is the most useful view and not the most cluttered

Snapshot view of recent tweets is still available in the Infobox along with the added ability to reply and retweet right inline

Reply and Retweet right from popup notifications so you can stay on task and stay in the loop

Automatic URL shortening when you paste links and automatic photo uploading when you paste pictures or screenshots

Oh with lots of free time on hand we definitely need some sort of way to pass our time. If you enjoy driving your friends nuts by playing stupid pranks on them, then here are some more tools that will help you have some fun.

Reverse Text

Back in the days when I was in school we just to use a code language, the code language involved speaking text in reverse. We had a lot of fun using it since it annoyed the hell out of people who were around us.

If you want to do the same you can use the reverse text service to reverse the text order and then paste it as your Twitter or Facebook status message or even send them as emails or IM messages to your friends.

Flip Text Upside Down

How does the world look upside down? Well I can’t tell you that, but I can definitely show you a service called Flip Text that flips text upside down.

Just type in the text you want to flip and hit the flip button, send the flipped text to your friends to see them go nuts.

Shuffle Text

Though not exactly a prank, this was an actual experiment where it was determined that most users do not read entire words. Instead we just focus on the first and last letters in a word while reading. It does not matter what characters are in between them. Think SMS language :-).

One of the most annoying thing about Microsoft is that they have not yet added a good text editor to their OS, there is Notepad then there is Wordpad. Both of these are decent text editors but there are tons of other free text editors which put both of these to shame.

We have seen lots of Twitterapplications come up in the past but Twitter Times is definitely going to be a very useful one.

Twitter Times is a new service created around twitter which displays you the links shared in your timeline in a newspaper format. The Twitter Times is a real-time personalized newspaper generated from your twitter account.

This is definitely something good because there are so many links flying around in my timeline that clicking on each and every link is really not feasible, this service will definitely help to get a quick glance on what my friends are sharing with me without having to keep opening the links everytime.

Twitter Times is definitely a service worth using and make life more easier when it comes to reading content shared by others.

Earlier in the day we reported that you could get Windows 7 for $19, however that offer is no longer valid and ACM has explicitly that their catalog does not contain Windows 7.

Don’t get dejected yet, Microsoft will be offering US students a chance to get a copy of Windows 7 for $29.99. This is a confirmed news from a Microsoft Windows twitter account (link). That is almost the same price you would have paid for Snow Leopard.

The offer will be is available on the website Win741 which is not active yet is very much active now. You will need to be a student or have a .edu email address to avail of this offer.

The available offer is for a upgrade pack from Windows Vista to Windows 7 which usually costs around $120.

This is as good as the earlier offer and for $10 more you will get the best OS on the market right now, and when we SAY it’s the best, believe us it is.

If you are fretting at the Windows 7 pricing here is some good news, albeit only if you are a student.

Microsoft has always buttered up students by lowering prices of products to an affordable level to them. Microsoft has done this for many products in the past including Microsoft Office.

But this offers definitely blows everything away, if you are student you can get your hands on Windows 7 professional for a mere $19. To do that you will have to become a member of Association for Computing Machinery which will cost $19.

Once you are a member you will get access to the MSDN Academic Alliance from where you can download 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 in several language. In all you get access to 8 Windows 7 product keys.

However ACM only avails membership to students, so if you are a high-school or undergraduate student this is a great chance to get a excellent operating system for next to nothing.